…putting the 'CARE' back into 'healthcare'.
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Therapeutics on May 1st, 2012
When I am taking a patient through treatment, one of the most foundational concepts of healing relates to the concept of “the direction of cure”. As I’ve written before, the mere act of making a symptom disappear is not necessarily enough. The questions of how it was made to disappear, and where it has gone [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Health, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Apr 22nd, 2012
I used the word cloud generator at the Wordle website this morning with playful curiosity, and discovered an opportunity to blog about a few of the key words about the scientific framework and thought forms behind Heilkunst. The word cloud above was generated from some of my most recent blog posts, and, in no particular [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Conditions, Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, Regimen, Therapeutics on Feb 24th, 2012
When I refer to “Allopathic” medicine, people often assume that this term only applies to the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs, but not to any non-drug approaches, such as surgery. “Allopathy” has a much broader meaning than this, and indicates a more general conceptual approach to health which doesn’t understand or treat the cause of a [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Anthroposophy, Cancer, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Feb 18th, 2012
I briefly described the four bodies in yesterday’s post, and now I’d like to take a bit of a closer look at the ontic organization (fourth body). As I mentioned yesterday, the birth of the ontic organization happens somewhere around the age of three, and one of the significant markers of this event is the [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Cancer, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Mind on Feb 8th, 2012
The topic of cancer is quite broad, and there are many areas to discuss from a Heilkunst perspective. In this blog post, I would like to make a few comments about this presentation made at a TEDMED conference about a new cancer treatment protocol, ‘Tumor Treating Fields”. As I wrote recently, there is an urgent [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Principles on Apr 19th, 2010
Despite numerous accounts of clinical success, homeopathy remains at the periphery of Western medicine. The expressed reason for its marginalization is that it violates accepted principles within the current biochemical paradigm. Through the process of potentization – – serial dilutions of a substance interspersed with vigorous shaking – – homeopathic remedies are often altered beyond [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2009
From Dr. William Douglass’s newsletter: First amendment a last priority for some docs Dear Friend, If you’ve ever seen an old re-run of Dr. Marcus Welby, M.D., you probably think you’re watching a depiction of medical care not just from a different time, but a different planet. The homey, personal attentions of Dr. Welby bear [...]
